Приманивание Снарка.

I am once again playing Wrath of the Righteous.
On Core, where the minimum requirement is to do everything you can do, every buff for you even for an easy fight.
I think I built the Knight Commander badly. I'm just shooting things with a crossbow because it turns out witch spells are mostly debuffs and I keep not throwing them. It is. Not good.
I know I could have built the others better.
It's kind of mostly working right now but.
if this grinds to a halt because I needed to make different choices many hours ago that is so frustrating.

Also I discovered that if you choose Demon even once in order to get an Achievement the neathers are completely screwed. They have no voice now. They're just killing stuff. And getting killed. So much.
Basically this Knight Commander is going to feel So Bad Forever. Lose temper once, watch intelligent beings apparently lose their minds. So so bad.

They chose Angel at Drezen but they have a lot to make up for.

Also I have played this game so often I am completely forgetting which bits I have done on this play through and which are still to do. Game journal is only thing keeping me in the right timeline. Time loop much?

I should sleep. Sleep is of the good.

I saw a very old tumblr post complaining about how
'the fandom' were okay with Owen and Toshiko dying
so I am going to complain about it on a totally different platform.

I don't think 'the fandom' were? I recall fixit fics. Ways to get Owen out of the nuclear station, with varying degrees of angst, and ways to get Toshiko actual medical attention, or cryo etc.

The thing is Children of Earth landed in five days. Which, I know that dropping a season for binge watching has become normal, but you didn't *get* five day event television on your sci fi tv show then. Episodes happened once a week and then you argued about them, it took months to chew them all over, you got unexpected twists and went wow all week until you saw them resolved. Which I feel like Dreamwidth users remember but a lot of younger fans need explained? So it landed in five days, and you got a sort of concentrated reaction bomb, critical mass as a season's worth of arguments tried to happen overnight. Compare that to anything before or since and you've take essential ingredients out of the boom.

So the experience of watching Torchwood was...
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The tumblr post pretty much seemed to think that the main difference between Ianto and Toshiko dying is the racism.
Can't say there's none of that in the mix. We don't get the same sort of stories about endless grief about Toshiko, and someone decided that. Feedback loop with the shrine, probably, but still.

Also after so much new Big Finish since the TV gave up on them my perspective is informed by new canon that only a tiny fraction of television viewers would be familiar with.

But the context just on the television at the time of first broadcast was so *hugely* different... Owen and Toshiko die and while that did pretty emphatically end a story arc you don't know for sure what the rules are and their return would be very precedented, you kind of think there's going to be another season and then there's that Event instead, and all the rules get changed up, in the process destroying the template and contents of the show we had been watching.

Comparing the reactions is like comparing the fuse fizz to the bang.

And there was still quite a lot of earlier bang.




I could go reread my own journal to see how much of this is me retconning myself
but I just realised I haven't ate since midnight
and it is 9pm.

Bit not good, shall go deal with being a biological entity now.


So maybe this is all made up retroactive justification
but really
the reaction to Ianto's death was an absolute one off
so
compare contrasting isn't going to work out.

Haven't said much so far this month.
Having rediscovered things that are not Doctor Who exist, I have been mostly rereading, which I do not then re review.
Also there are Power Tool Things happening in the building and I Do Not Like That.

Today I started rereading a fanfic, a really good long one,
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28820259/chapters/70685889 Initiation
Jaspergirl (old_fashioned_gal)

I like it because it makes specific interventions to bring more characters into the Initiative and then extrapolates plausibly from there. Old issues setup, existing characters, new answers roll out.



But when I reread or rewatch things I keep on getting annoyed
at the characters that have not changed
due to the linear nature of time
and the nonlinear way one can revisit twenty years ago in read only mode.

I get annoyed that the rerun people never learn.

Or sometimes they just seem so young, on account of being young, and then I'm not annoyed but I'm not exactly right there with them, you know?

So the obvious thing to do is to fic up a few ideas about what people are or would be doing now.
It's just if you maintain the event density of the original source then twenty to thirty years is a *wild* amount of time to extrapolate. I mean, they could do anything. They could be anything. Ascension is not off the table here. So how do you math that out?
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So I either invent people I'm annoyed with or start sorting out and resolving their tensions and end up with ones I like but no longer believe.



... either way I don't write them down so it's all one to the rest of the world, but.
tricky.

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So okays, I have been typing for over an hour I think and I'm not sure any of those paragraphs were actually helpful, and now it is sleeps time.


But I keep getting grumpy at existing stories, for staying the same, so I do need to come up with some answers for how to change things.